Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann
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zoologist
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. He studied medicine and philology
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at the University of Leipzig
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, and afterwards was an assistant to Martin Lichtenstein
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Martin Hinrich Carl Lichtenstein was a German physician, explorer, zoologist, and herpetologist.-Biography:...
(1780-1857) in Berlin. In 1828 he became a professor at Cologne
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, and two years later was an extraordinary professor
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at the Humboldt University in Berlin
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Weigmann specialized in the study of herpetology
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and mammalogy
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. In 1835, he founded, together with other scholars, the zoological periodical Archiv für Naturgeschichte, also known as "Wiegmann's Archive". With Johann Friedrich Ruthe
Johann Friedrich Ruthe
Johann Friedrich Ruthe Ruthé or von Ruthe was a German teacher and entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera and Diptera.-Works:...
(1788-1859) he wrote an important textbook
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of zoology
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called Handbuch der Zoologie, and in 1834 Wiegmann published Herpetologia Mexicana, a monograph
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on the reptile
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Reptiles are members of a class of air-breathing, ectothermic vertebrates which are characterized by laying shelled eggs , and having skin covered in scales and/or scutes. They are tetrapods, either having four limbs or being descended from four-limbed ancestors...
s of Mexico.
- Note: He is not to be confused with his father Arend Friedrich WiegmannArend Friedrich WiegmannArend Joachim Friedrich Wiegmann was a German pharmacist and botanist who was a native of Hadersleben.Originally an apprentice pharmacist to his uncle in Braunschweig, he spent the following years working in several pharmacies in Germany and Switzerland...
(1771-1853), a German researcher in geneticsGeneticsGenetics , a discipline of biology, is the science of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms....
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